Alaska Statutes Title 27. Mining § 27.30.099. Definitions

(1) “credit” means the exploration incentive credit for activities involving locatable and leasable mineral and coal deposits authorized by this chapter;

(2) “eligible costs” means the costs incurred for activities in direct support of exploration activity conducted at the mining operation of the exploration activity for the purpose of determining the existence, location, extent, or quality of a mineral or coal deposit; the term

(3) “exploration activity data” includes, as applicable,

(4) “geochemical methods” means soil, rock, water, air, vegetation, and similar samples collected and their chemical analyses;

(5) “geophysical methods” means all geophysical data gathering methods used in mineral or coal exploration, including seismic, gravity, magnetic, radiometric, radar, and electromagnetic and other remote sensing measurements;

(6) “mining operation” includes all operating and nonoperating activities related to a mineral deposit interest, and may be comprised of one or more mining properties; in determining whether mining properties are part of the same mining operation, the commissioner may consider whether the operation, in conducting mining activities on several mining properties, uses common personnel, supply, and maintenance facilities, mining-related treatment processes, storage facilities, roads, pipelines and transportation equipment, and mining techniques and technology, and may also consider the extent to which the mineral deposit interest comprises a common mining property;

(7) “person” means only those persons listed in AS 27.30.010(d).